Category: Business/Technology

Noted: In her recent economic plan, Burke noted that life sciences research is one of the strengths of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

While the two have been taking care of business, they haven?t neglected their studies. Both are on pace to earn undergraduate degrees in fewer than four years. Also at UW, they?ve received support through The University of Wisconsin Law School?s Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, which provides free legal services to entrepreneurs and small business owners … They?ve also received office space and other help from the UW Student Business Incubator, based out of the Student Activity Center.

Many companies have moved quickly to patch the code since the problem was discovered earlier this week, but there are likely several services out there that might be slow to respond. Nick Davis, an Information Security Architect with the UW-Madison, says that could sensitive data at risk, if businesses have failed to patch the bug.

Academic institutions are among those players often not addressed in the current patent reform debate. They don?t have the financial resources that big businesses like Apple and IBM, two companies that are part of a coordinated lobbying campaign, do.

Noted: Sanders grew up in Chicago and in 1971 earned his bachelor?s degree in history and economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned a master?s degree in urban and regional planning from the university in 1973.

Noted: In recent months, there has been a surge of interest in, and investors have been willing to pay higher prices for, riskier, higher-debt companies, said Casey Karbowski, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: A year later, the company forged a $20.6 million cost-sharing agreement that has the National Nuclear Security Administration providing half of the funding, with Shine, the Morgridge Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison providing the other half.

The Milwaukee Brewers are reigning supreme in Milwaukee?s sports world Monday, but the Wisconsin Badgers are giving the team a run for its money.

Noted: The flurry of advances in recent years are the culmination of 30 years of groundwork that began with the formation of university technology transfer offices, said Midwest Research University Network co-founder and President Allen Dines of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

A smartphone app for recovering alcoholics that includes a panic button and sounds an alert when they get too close to taverns helped keep some on the wagon, UW-Madison researchers who developed the tool found.

Depending on where you live or work in the state, you might have a very different perspective on the aging face of Wisconsin.

Professors who change lives inspire their students to give back. And in many cases, those students give back money to their alma mater.

Quoted: If there is resistance to competency-based education, Aaron Brower, interim provost and vice chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Extension said during the session, it?s not coming primarily from faculty members.

A company started by a Cohasset college student has undergone an important name change ? from Cbay to Canary. The change was made to avoid confusion with that ?other? online auction site that starts with an ?e.? Unlike that other site, however, Canary sells goods on a client?s behalf and donates a portion of sales to charity.

Some day, putting your smartphone on the car seat next to you while driving could recharge the phone?s battery.

Qian, 36, an associate professor of statistics at UW-Madison, founded Metamodeling Analytics, a Madison company developing software to speed the process for designing new industrial products.

A unique way of adding color to 3-D created products was the winning entry in the 20th annual Innovation Days competition at UW-Madison.

Noted: EatStreet was founded in 2009 by Howard and two other University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates, Eric Martell and Alex Wyler.

A $2 million fund to help faculty and students on University of Wisconsin campuses commercialize ideas and potentially create new businesses and jobs was launched Thursday by the UW System and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.

Three finalists have been named for the job heading the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Discovery to Product initiative, which is intended to boost campus entrepreneurism.